Love Poems by Rajat Krishan

■ A Pair of Eyes in Ruthless Time 

A name

germinates here in my arid heart

and I am renovating slowly 

into a fertile green forest area

Waterfalls are erupting 

from every pore of my bulk

as my whole existence 

is overflowing form inside

A face

rises in east with the sunrise

and fragrance of life

assimilates me

In this ruthless afternoon of my age

When cuts don’t cut the bullhead of time

I miss a pair of eyes

and starts singing the song of spring

That name, that face 

outs nowhere

illuminate inside me 
unhurried like eternal light 

(From the collection 'Tumahari Buni Huie Prarathna')

■ Your Woven Prayer

From the withered tree of my laughter

the leaves that are twinkling today

their roots amble

inside my existence in you

in the sinking sky of my eyes

the butterflies that have started humming

their breaths are my breaths 

that flowing in your palm

Listen mine stream water

the destinations and paths 

that are lost in the ravines of defeat, despair and breakdown 

knocks my feet’s shackles

that's your prayer woven for me

(From the collection 'Tumahari Buni Hue Prarthna')

■ Behind all this falsehood

Behind all this falsehood

lines of two soft hands work

What am I! What is here for me!!

somewhere here on the edge of the earth

there is a lamp burning for me

the world doesn't know

but his face never leaves my mind's eye

Give him contentment

for whole life

blessed water like nectar drop 

arises from my part’s request

all for him

What am I! What is mine!!

everything relates to him

it’s only through him 

my life enlightens 

amidst the storms of sorrows ‘n’ pain

(From the collection 'Tumahari Buni Huie Prarthna')

■ Missing You

By sitting on the

entrance of the hottest months 

I’m missing you

and the paths on which you quarters 

become alive

That mountain, that forest, that river

in whose company 

your laugh spring out like drizzle

comes to me, one by one

While fluttering hand fan 

wiping sweat from the forehead 

I'm missing you

and that queen of seasons

who spreads spring 

inside my heart’s autumn

comes to me

from the captivity of your breathing

(From the collection 'Chattees Janon Wala Ghar')

■ Presence in Absence

In these days of your absence

I am feeling
your presence

in a new way 

the way 

a farmer differentiates 

soil, air, water and sunlight

immersed inside the ripened crop

Soil, air, water and sunshine of yourself 

immersed in me

and the crop of my life 

is ripening because of you

(From the collection 'Chattes Janon Wala Ghar')

Rajat Krishan is a Hinid poet, writer and editor of Hindi magazine ‘Sarvnam’.

He lives in Bagbahara in Chattisgarh and can be reached at-

9755392532

Translation and Pics by: Kumar Krishan Sharma
Mobile: 94191-84412
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